Dear readers,For quite some time now, I've been faithfully posting each Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday at 6pm Central European Time, with a short break in the flow of posts during the Winter holidays. Regardless of how busy work got, I…
This post is part of the series PhD Talk for AcademicTransfer: posts written for the Dutch academic career network AcademicTransfer, your go-to resource for all research positions in the Netherlands. These posts are sponsored by AcademicTransfer, and tailored to those…
Some time ago, I wrote a post about how to construct the outline of your dissertation. If you haven't read it: here's the summary of the idea. If you simply sit down one day and expect that you can start…
I recently presented a paper titled "Practical Application of Transverse Load Redistribution in Reinforced Concrete Solid Slab Bridges" at the 9th conference on Short and Medium Span Bridges in Calgary. The abstract of the paper is the following: For an…
At IABMAS 2014 in Shanghai, I presented a paper titled "Recommendations for the Shear Assessment of Reinforced Concrete Solid Slab Bridges". The abstract of the paper is: As a result of the heavier live load models and more conservative shear…
Over the past year, I've been mostly focused on writing. As I finished my dissertation, I started to work on the journal articles that I want to publish from my dissertation, which completely covered the time I was spending working…
While being smart can be a necessary condition for making it to the end of your PhD (or, more general, for being successful in life, regardless of what you do), it is not the only important factor. It might not…
About a year ago, my husband and I started moving our things to Ecuador, a process which is still not finished because I still have quite a number of things in Europe (all my books!).We moved to Ecuador by shipping…
Time ago, I won by chance a one-month course on creativity from Melissa Dinwiddie, and I planned to write about this course and lessons about creativity for quite some time.One of the most powerful elements in Dinwiddie's course is her…
Over two years ago, I wrote about ways to improve your Spotify experience (free ways so you can avoid the subscription cost, of course!). Spotify is growing more and more, and is now seemingly the standard for streaming music. The…
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